Welcome to the world of Martellus Bennett, where wit, wisdom, and insight collide. Martellus Bennett, a former professional American football player turned creative powerhouse, has left an indelible mark both on and off the field. Known for his charismatic personality and unapologetic authenticity, Bennett’s quotes resonate with a depth that transcends the realm of sports, touching on themes of creativity, perseverance, and the human experience.
As a tight end in the National Football League (NFL), Bennett’s journey has been marked by triumphs, challenges, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. Beyond his athletic prowess, Bennett is a passionate advocate for creativity and self-expression, using his platform to inspire others to embrace their unique gifts and pursue their dreams fearlessly. With a combination of humor, insight, and raw honesty, his words have the power to uplift, motivate, and provoke thought.
Below, you’ll find a curated collection of Martellus Bennett’s most compelling quotes. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, motivation, or simply a dose of perspective, these words are sure to ignite your imagination and fuel your journey towards greatness. Let the wisdom of Martellus Bennett guide you as you navigate the highs and lows of life, reminding you to always stay true to yourself and never stop reaching for the stars.
If I write a book, it has to be so awesome. It has to be next level, to prove mysel. Just like if you are an athlete and you want to rap, you better bring the bars. Don’t come in with nursery rhymes. Martellus Bennett
I only read the left-hand pages, so I finish books twice as fast. Martellus Bennett
I hate typing but I love to write manually. Martellus Bennett
I have a library, and it’s like I want to beat Belle on ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and have a better library than she had. Martellus Bennett
I feel like I’m a better person without the game of football. I’m happier. Martellus Bennett
I’m the creative director of awesomeness. Martellus Bennett
Everyone is creative, but we are only as creative as we allow ourselves to be. Martellus Bennett
I’m kind of like a black unicorn out there. It’s amazing to watch. You go out there and you see a big, black guy running down the field, it’s usually me. Martellus Bennett
I feel like I’m the Kanye of the NFL. Martellus Bennett
My mind is like a theme park, because it’s fun and there’s lots of cool stuff and you can take rides. Martellus Bennett
As far as I can remember, I was always with my dad. He exemplified what it means to make sacrifices for your family. Martellus Bennett
Black fathers are often disappointed if their sons aren’t good at sports. Not excelling at sports as a black boy meant not being cool – even weirder, it meant not really being black. Martellus Bennett
I’ve always been interested in creating things for kids. Martellus Bennett
My goal is to be surrounded by books. Martellus Bennett
I’d never worked for anyone else until I got to the NFL, and this will be my last time working for someone else. Martellus Bennett
I think every athlete is an entrepreneur. Our job is to better our product to present to a new team every year. Martellus Bennett
I was banned from IHOP. Not all IHOPs, just the one on Highway 6 by my house where I grew up. Martellus Bennett
I don’t club, I don’t really go out, and there’s a lot of stuff I don’t really do socially. Martellus Bennett
I feel like kids don’t dream big enough. With art being taken out of school, it’s important to know you can create as well. Martellus Bennett
I’m not building gyms. I’m not interested in building football fields or doing football camps. I’m interested in doing film camps and coding camps. Martellus Bennett
Why does everyone always assume the quarterback is the leader? Martellus Bennett
When my daughter was born, I was reading a lot of children’s books, and there weren’t any characters who looked like her. For all the content that’s out there, there aren’t many African-American protagonists. I looked at it like, if there isn’t someone else creating it then I have to do it myself. Martellus Bennett
I’m very, very weird. Martellus Bennett
I’ve always wanted to create. I didn’t ever want to just be a football player, so I’m just bringing all these childhood dreams together to try to accomplish the things I want to do before I die. Martellus Bennett
Playing in the NFL isn’t really – and shouldn’t have to be – every black boy’s dream. But black boys don’t always know that their dreams off the field matter. Martellus Bennett
I love to read because I know that for a long time ancestors weren’t allowed to. I love to write. Because for a long time my people weren’t ‘allowed’ to. So I’m going to write my books, my apps and tell my stories. Martellus Bennett
A lot of players act one way with teammates, one way with reporters, another way for fans, another for their friends. I’m just me all the time. I’m normal. Everyone else in the NFL is weird. Martellus Bennett
I’m the same way with the media as I am to everyone else. Martellus Bennett
I’m a straightforward person. I think sometimes it comes off the wrong way. Martellus Bennett
I don’t know if quirkiness is kind. I don’t know if quirkiness is mean. I don’t know if quirkiness has emotion. It’s just a way of being. Martellus Bennett
With your imagination, you can go anywhere or do anything, anything is possible. Martellus Bennett
I built my company a lot while playing for the Patriots. Martellus Bennett
I thought Willy Wonka was brilliant. He had all kinds of candy. Who doesn’t like chocolate and candies? Everybody wanted a Gobstopper. I just think he’s brilliant. Martellus Bennett
I’m a voracious reader, I’m always studying. Martellus Bennett
Dreams come true, but dreams don’t wait for you. You have to chase your dreams. Martellus Bennett
There’s a lot of guys who use their likeness – to do movies, and do other business stuff, but not too many guys are actually making product. I’m making product, it’s a different thing. A lot of guys are holding up Coke cans and get paid a lot of money to do that, but no one’s making a Coke can. I’m the guy that’s trying to make the Coke can. Martellus Bennett
A lot of times when you’re around really, really smart people, you don’t really understand them. Martellus Bennett
I’m always excited anytime I get a chance to be a better player and work with different people. Martellus Bennett
I believe in dreaming. Martellus Bennett
Playing with my brother, that’s the only thing I didn’t get to do in football. Martellus Bennett
I have about 3,500 books, maybe more. Martellus Bennett
For me, storytelling is what I love to do and that’s my life’s work. Football is not my life’s work. It’s just part of my life’s journey, but creativity is my actual life’s work. Martellus Bennett
If you play sports, use sports. So many of our kids get used by the game and then get nothing out of it. Use it as a tool to open up other doors that you want to open in life. Martellus Bennett
Shaq and Muhammad Ali’s my favorite two athletes of all time. Martellus Bennett
I’m trying to build a Disney. Not only as a creator, but also be able to create universes where then that content can go into toys, and live on multimedia platforms, whether it’s apps, books, movies, cartoons. It’s like building a whole world, which takes a lot of money. Martellus Bennett
I’m trying to be the best dad ever. And being a husband is a whole other business itself. Martellus Bennett
I feel like there are not a lot of us, in terms of African American owners or creators. I’m trying to get kids and communities to think not just about playing for the team, but owning the team. You don’t always have to be the worker bee. Martellus Bennett
If I die and you remember me as an athlete, I failed at life. Martellus Bennett
I’m looking like Atlas, not Professor Klump. Martellus Bennett
I’m just comfortable in front of the camera. I’m like the male Oprah. Martellus Bennett
As young black boys in Alief, Texas, my friends and I often spent afternoons imagining ourselves scoring the game-winning touchdown at the end of the Super Bowl. Martellus Bennett
I believe happiness breeds success and not the other way around. Martellus Bennett
I think sometimes in life we learn that we’re only allowed to have one dream, but you can have more than one dream. You can accomplish more than one thing. Martellus Bennett
I always wanted to do animation. Martellus Bennett
Any time you’re in a maze there’s multiple ways to get to the end. Martellus Bennett
First and foremost, I am a husband and a father, which is a full-time job. Martellus Bennett
When you’re authentic, people appreciate that. Martellus Bennett
Playing with my brother on the Patriots would have been amazing, but at the same time I feel like my work as a creator is more important. Martellus Bennett
I want to live a life full of purpose and intention. Sometimes when we play sports and athletics you can lose your purpose. Martellus Bennett
I think coding is gonna become the blue collar work of the future. Martellus Bennett
Creativity is something that is forever. Martellus Bennett
It’s always cool to make a comeback like 45 Michael Jordan did, or like Marshawn Lynch. Martellus Bennett
When I won the Super Bowl I thought I was going to be, like, extremely happy. But then I really just felt like, ‘Well, this is it?’ I felt like I got bamboozled. Martellus Bennett
I like art, photography, film – all that creativity. Martellus Bennett
I always say Coach Trestman reminds me of the first Willy Wonka. Not the Johnny Depp one. Martellus Bennett
A lot of athletes are first-generation money. Martellus Bennett
Dr. Seuss said, ‘No one can be you-er than you,’ and Oscar Wilde said, ‘Be yourself because everyone else is taken.’ So I just try to continue to be who I am and don’t change that. And I’m a little chameleon, so I can fit in wherever I am. Martellus Bennett
I recognized from a young age that I wasn’t a football player; I played football. Martellus Bennett
I want to be like the Nike or Apple of children’s books. Martellus Bennett
A lot of people hate winners. Martellus Bennett
I’m not a guy who holds up a product and says, ‘Drink this.’ Martellus Bennett
I’ve always known from a young age that creativity is natural. Martellus Bennett
My ultimate goal is to live forever, but the only way to live forever is to create and you always want to be there for your kid. Martellus Bennett
When you look at me see the father, the awesome dad, the author, film director, business owner, champion, friend, Hufflepuff beast. Martellus Bennett
I don’t always answer bird calls, but, when I do, they’re from Tom Brady and Gronk. Martellus Bennett
What if Macauley Culkin were black in ‘Home Alone?’ Most people would write it differently… but I would write it the same way. Martellus Bennett
Nothing good happens after 11. If you can’t get a date before 11 o’clock, you need to go home and you need to work on yourself. Martellus Bennett
There was plays where I had to do certain things, but I wouldn’t even know who caught the ball because I was so focused on getting my job done. Martellus Bennett
If I’m not with my family or playing football then I’m usually in my office writing and drawing. Martellus Bennett
There aren’t many children’s books about black characters that are just going on adventures. My library has over 2,000 children’s books in it, and most of the protagonists are either white or creatures. Martellus Bennett
The way we have been programmed and conditioned to think about the black kid being an athlete, it’s like every young black boy people would see say ‘what sport do you play?’ instead of just asking ‘what do you do?’ ‘What are you interested in?’ Martellus Bennett
Black boys shouldn’t have to feel that being good at sports is the only way to be cool – or to be valued by the world. Martellus Bennett
I’m like always smiling but I’m superaggressive. I have like a different type of chip on my shoulder. Martellus Bennett
I don’t want to inspire the next generation of tight ends or linebackers to play the game. If I could inspire the next generation of architects and technology leaders and writers and illustrators and film directors, then I feel like I have fulfilled my life purpose. Martellus Bennett
For some reason as a kid being a smart athlete didn’t seem like the right thing, because you didn’t fit in. You didn’t want to be too smart because you’d be a nerd. But then you didn’t want to be too dumb either because then you didn’t get the grades you needed to play. Martellus Bennett
Bill Nye the Science Guy’ was awesome. Martellus Bennett
I don’t make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I’m smarter than I look. Martellus Bennett
I’m trying to build something that lasts forever. If it’s tied to my legacy as an athlete, then when I’m gone, it will have no momentum or can’t keep selling. Martellus Bennett
I’ve always been interested in clothing because it’s an extension of how we feel. Martellus Bennett
I’ve always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things. Martellus Bennett
You grow up, no one really teaches you about taxes, especially as an athlete. Martellus Bennett
Willy Wonka’s like my Michael Jordan. Martellus Bennett
If you ask a kid what their dreams are, they will give you a list that is as long as I am tall. Once you get older that list gets shorter and shorter, so dreams shrink. I think dreams should grow as you get older. Martellus Bennett
I just wanted everybody to know that I’m not fat. I’m trying to get an eight pack. Martellus Bennett
It’s so easy to get caught up in the future and in the past. Martellus Bennett
With ‘Dear Black Boy,’ I wanted to encourage BIack boys to dream outside of sports and think differently. Martellus Bennett
If I wake up at 6 A. M. to work out, I’m done at 10 A. M.. Most guys play video games all day. Martellus Bennett
I hated Jason Witten. I appreciated his game, but I always hated him. Martellus Bennett
I want to be so far removed from the idea that it’s like, ‘Oh, right, he won a Super Bowl.’ Football is only a small part of your life. Martellus Bennett
Don’t put yourself in a box. Become anything that you want to be. Martellus Bennett